Word: oss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CHRIS & PAUL WEITZ PAST FILM Wrote screenplay for Antz CURRENT FILM American Pie AGE DIFFERENCE: Paul, 33, is four years older FUN FAMILY FACT: Their father, designer John Weitz, was a spy for the OSS RECURRING MOTIFS: Too soon to tell, but hopefully they won't revisit teenagers fornicating with pies HOW CLOSE ARE THEY? "If Paul burps 10 miles away, Chris will apologize." --Chris Weitz...
...subjects of Brokaw's strongest feelings. Still, who would not want to know that Art Buchwald was a bumbling Marine who failed to get a laugh when he dropped a bomb he was loading onto a Corsair? Or that 6-ft. 2-in. Julia Child served with the OSS in India after the WAVES rejected her because she was too tall...
...half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World War II. His marriage to Sylvia, a wellborn New Yorker and poet, was a mismatch. "Government's the opiate of the patrician masses," she tells him shortly before walking out. Her parting shot is that Axel, former oss operative and friend of Presidents, has "too many secrets, not enough mystery...
...reads like a composite rather than a copy. He has spent more than half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World War II. His marriage to Sylvia, a wellborn New Yorker and poet, was a mismatch. Her parting shot before leaving is that Axel, former OSS operative and friend of Presidents, has 'too many secrets, not enough mystery.' Ironically, what sets Echo House apart from the hyperrealities of the usual Washington novel is precisely its air of ineffability," notes Sheppard. "A novel with this much grievous personal history needs comic relief. Just obliges with Mrs. Pfister...
...canoe last Saturday, after talking to his wife on the phone and telling her he wasn't feeling well. The Sheriff's department said at the time that they were investigating the case as a boating accident. The 76-year old Colby started out his career in the OSS -->